"Recently," writes Gertrude; ter, from Miami, to the "N. World" "we went into a local barber shop with considerable misgiving, born of much sad experience, to have our short hair made shorter. We have learned that all barbers are not like our sood Louis on Sixth Avenue near the square, who cuts our hair practically free hand.'
"Everything progressed favorably until the barber brought around the clipping machine and we informed. him that we would have our neck shaved. He looked at us, in haughty indignation and" told us in accents whose meaning could not a flapper; in fact, for the past a machine for that purpose.
"Now we are, oh, very far advanced, and are possessed of no smal] degree of firmness. We are not be misunderstood that he had two years the number of gray ones has been increasing at a rapid rate, and besides it was our neck and we wanted it shaved.
"We were told, emphatically, that as a barber he had been cutting women's and children's hair ever since hair had been cut, but but never, never, had razor of his profaned or blasphemed a woman's neck! In a voice trembling with outraged feeling he told us - he would shave a man's neck but never a woman's. It coarsened the hair, it destroyed the finer in-stiners of womanhood and was unbecoming a lady to shave her neck.
"In vain did we protest that our neck had been shaved for years and years and through it all had remained essentially feminine, and: we must have it shaved.
"This naturally created an impasse and, persisting to the last that he could cut our hair but couldn't shave our neck, he called over another barber who cut the Gordian knot? with his razor, and the day was saved. But what should we have done if there had been no other barber?"
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